[how do I set my titleblock style so that the date is always auto update?]

Thank you both!  

[how do I set my titleblock style so that the date is always auto update?]

I find it quite tedious to go through each sheet layer and set the date to auto update.  There doesn't seem to be a style switch for this option.  Can I make it default to auto update?

[Rendering Advantage for NURBS or Solids or Generic Solids?]

I would think that if you are using GI the simpler the better, and covering up those holes would take less computing time.  

[Reshaping/resizing a Flat Nurbs surface with hole in]

Do you need to do this because per face texture mapping is not working for you?

[custom workgroup folders not showing up in resource manager]

Are we allowed to have custom folders?  I can't get anything to show up in mine unless it is in a default workgroup folder.  

[How can I select similar objects in Vectorworks where the similarity is controlled by Style Name and not Symbol Name or Object Name]

Couple of options:

The magic wand tool can select similar objects by criteria on a design layer.  The criteria can be saved as an option for use later.

There is a menu command called custom selection, which allows you to select objects across the entire file and set up criteria for what you are selecting. You can execute immediately, or save as a script.

There is a menu command called custom modification, which is allows you to select and modify across the file with criteria. You can execute immediately, or save as a script.

[Rotating LED Screen]

When we do the curved array it is always about the angle of the facet, and laying them out becomes a very rudimentary process.  I don't use the speaker array tool but I get what people are saying, that is how the array should be built: module size and degree of facet.  

[Rotating LED Screen]

I wish the LED screen tool had an option to curve the array as well.  

[Multi View Panes]

David, I would move this to troubleshooting.  Others my have had this issue.  I use multipanes from time to time and they can cause some crashing issues, especially if your computer is underpowered in terms of graphics card etc.  Please put your computer specs in your signature, that is helpful.

[Getting a thick green rectangle on design layers when I navigate to layer from a sheet layer, same shape as the viewport crop]

So strange that I never noticed this setting.  And so strange that all of a sudden it got turned on.

[Getting a thick green rectangle on design layers when I navigate to layer from a sheet layer, same shape as the viewport crop]

And if it is new, might I suggest that the feature be modified to auto create a new class: "reference crop" instead of just putting it in the active class? 

[Getting a thick green rectangle on design layers when I navigate to layer from a sheet layer, same shape as the viewport crop]

so is this a new feature that was enabled?  I certainly didn't turn it on.  

[Getting a thick green rectangle on design layers when I navigate to layer from a sheet layer, same shape as the viewport crop]

1st image: on a sheet layer

2nd image, design layer that I navigated through to from the viewport

 

3rd image, back at the viewport

 

WHAT ARE THESE RECTANGLES AND WHY ARE THEY SHOWING UP???

 

I'm now having this issue across multiple files.

[Make achieving graphic consistency on sheets less painful]

I would agree with most of these. There are some workarounds, like saving the item in your template file as a symbol that converts to group upon insertion, but even then there are issues.  An example of this would be the scale bar, which I have preset to the right style, right height, right lineweight, but it will not use my default font but instead comes in as Arial.  

 

I have in many cases created a class specifically for each of these tools, set the lineweight/style/text style etc, and created a simple vectorscript to activate that class so I don't have to fiddle with the classes in the navigation palette.  Saves some clicks.  

 

But, to your point, if we as users could have the ability to set up all of these tools the way we want them to be, and save them, we would all spend a lot less time fiddling with the settings and get back to drawing.  

 

I think it is great that you have made this list for us all to see.  Hopefully the VW engineers will take this and run with it, to create a true method for a working standard.  

[where are the eyedropper saved prefs saved to?]

well.... yes.  So these settings can be localized, like if I save them to my workgroup folder?  Then every file I open or start will have them?

[where are the eyedropper saved prefs saved to?]

And are they transferable from file to file?  It seems like every once in a while my saved preferences are lost and I have to remake them.

[Allow 3D symbols to be able to be used within solid additions and subtractions.]

And be used for extrude along path object profiles!

[generate rectangles from worksheet data?]

I so wish I had the scripting chops.  Thank you @michaelk and @MullinRJ

[generate rectangles from worksheet data?]

I have a long list of rectangles, width and height, in a worksheet.  Is there a way to generate these rectangles?  I imagine it's a script....

[Fading out elements in sections/interior elevations based on distance]

went back to my problem drawing and saw that this could be achieved via class overrides in the SLVP.  However, I don't think this solve would always work.  In my case, I had a 2D section drawing of the house (very common in theatres) that I could just fade out.  But to do this by depth of section....that is beyond class overrides.

[Fading out elements in sections/interior elevations based on distance]

I have had to do this recently.  Unfortunately we wanted the set in the venue to be sectioned, with its geometry beyond the cut plane a normal light weight, and the venue beyond greyed out.  I had to resort to stacking viewports to get the venue to be greyed out.  Not my favorite method.

 

[Mac M2 Render Speed Test]

On my machine I get 11 min 30 sec to render the file.  

But, if I Send to C4D, with the exact same render settings (vw exports them for me, I'm not adjusting anything), I get 1 min 26 secs.

Just food for thought.  

[Referenced objects do not show their 2d/hybrid geometry...]

Got it figured out.  The items HAVE to be in top/plan view when the geometry is first referenced.  

[Referenced objects do not show their 2d/hybrid geometry...]

@Tom W.2D column of the viewports tab? Where on earth is that?

[Referenced objects do not show their 2d/hybrid geometry...]

I'm working on a file in with a bunch of referenced symbols and objects.  When I look in the parent file, the objects are hybrid and/or 2d/3d symbols, so there is 2d geometry.  But in the file to which I'm referencing these objects in...only the 3d shows up.  Is this correct behavior?